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Siegfried Mazet has left the French team after 8 years of being the very succesful shooting coach. The French federation is angry and rumours are he is going to Norway.

Actually those people are very much more pro-Italy than pro-Russia, so in a match Italy - Russia they would definitely support Italy (meaning they have nothing against Italy) It's just weird that "Italy getting help from referees" is a theme that comes up at every water polo tournament apparently. I would say this whole thing smells a little Again, I'm not blaming the Dutch results on the referees. They should have won the ticket in the Euro final in the first place, then they shouldn't have given away a big lead against Russia in a matter of minutes...

Good to see Sarita Devi in this tournament, I thought she was still banned for not accepting the unfair decisions at the 2014 Asian Games..

Awesome

Well I hope your U17 team follows their example and also doesn't score a single goal today

Why is it impossible to find video footage of the foul that led to the penalty for Colombia? Apparently there's quite a bit of fuss about it being nothing but a dive..

What's trash television? Television you can use to throw in your trash?

How's the life in Italy?

Hello!

Also, what I heard from people who watched the game: Italy AGAIN got so much referee help today...it's so f*cking frustrating and because of that I'd almost hope Italy loses in the QF's (after getting so incredibly much help in the past year at least, they could get some bad luck..) But that's of course not fair to their players...

48 is just a weird adaption of the CZE flag 43 and 44 are clearly inspired by Tokelau, 49 and 50 are way too "Palau-ish", 42 and the others with that brown thing are horribly boring, 35 is way too different. My choices: 36 38 47

But if this was not on purpose, I don't have high hopes for tomorrow

For a moment I thought they were gonna lose on purpose against NZL in order to avoid Spain

I'm not a football expert, but looking at the way we're playing against France at the moment, I don't think this team is going to give us the European title this summer

Not bad for an amateur, 3rd tier rugby player

Of course his results so far are more impressive than mine But the way he gave away victory again today...it happens so damn often Honestly I'm starting to remember him more as someone who always gives away victories, "the eternal 2nd place finisher" than the guy who wins a lot of races

You have to understand it as a sign that I wasn't joking when I talked about the famous "curse of the rainbow jersey"

Six 2nd place finishes and six 4th place finishes so far this season

- Every disadvantage has an advantage - If people would drive faster on the highway, they would be home faster and so they wouldn't be standing in traffic jams all the time - If you don't shoot at goal, you can't score - I know more than nothing about volleyball, and that's enough - I'm against everything. Until I make a decision, because then I'm for it - The truth is never exactly as you thought it would be - I'm not religious. In Spain, all 22 players ask God for help before the match, but if it actually worked, every match would end in a draw - Experience is something you have or you don't have - For a bad player, he has a very good technique, but for a good player, he has a very bad technique (talking about Zlatan Ibrahimovic) - Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake - I would never be able to work for AS Roma...they have an athletics track around the field and that's the worst thing in the world - If you score one more goal than your opponent, you win the match - If you're not at a certain place, you're either too early or too late - You have to defend in every place of the field. That costs less energy, because then you don't have to run all the way back to make a goal - If everybody does their job, you'll at least get a draw - I've never seen a bag of money score a goal - If you knew anything about football, you'd be in my position right now - Sometimes something has to happen before something happens - I love working as long as I'm doing work I love - One of the 32 participating countries at the World Cup wins the World Cup. The others won't, because they're not there - For starters, there's only one ball, so you need to have possession of that one, but the main thing is: what do you do with that ball? - Football is simple: you're either right on time or you're too late. If you're too late, you should have left earlier - If you see a player sprint, it means he left too late - As long as we are in control of the ball, they can't score - If I asked you to show what you can do, you'd show what you can do. However, you'd also show what you couldn't do, because you're not showing that. - If I wanted you to understand it, I'd have explained it better - The ball is an essential part of the game - If you're playing with a lot of ball possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball - I'm still convinced that the way I do things is the way it should be done, because otherwise I wouldn't be doing it like that - If Italians get one chance, they score two goals

Told you, Sagan and the curse of the rainbow jersey. Although today was Sagan's typical way to lose races like he usually does

I'm guessing RUS, ITA and NED all would not exactly have been ideal opponents It's a shame that Spain just destroyed Canada in two segments of a few minutes (from 3-5 to 7-5 and later when moving up to 10-6)...there was more possible for the Canadians

Canada gives away a 5-3 HT lead against Spain and loses 6-10. Meaning we will very likely play Spain in a direct match for an Olympic ticket... (unless some weird stuff happens with RUS and ITA ending up with a draw)

Haase's coach is now officially suspected of murdering a businessman some weeks ago The guy (Mark de Jong) was arrested when he and Haase came back from their trip to the Americas, but Haase only found out a little later because he was flying business class and his coach was flying economy class.

2004 was as Serbia and Montenegro...I'm surprised Serbia wasn't there in 2008 and 2012